I watched Amazon’s The Boys this week. So instead of the usual 60′s Marvel fare, here’s some tangential science relating to the superpowers featured in the show
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The Science of Eurovision 2019
Last year I was inspired to find random moments of science in several of the entries' lyrics. No one told me never to do it again, so here we go...
Throwing Stones at Marvel’s Endgame
Last year I threw together a quick post talking about the differences between the MCU's Avengers: Infinity War and the original 90's series the Thanos Quest and the Infinity Gauntlet. This post shall have nothing of the sort, as I'm struggling to find anything similar other than the fact that everyone who gets snapped out of… Continue reading Throwing Stones at Marvel’s Endgame
The Science of Eurovision 2018
Last year I was inspired to find random moments of science in several of the entries' lyrics. No one told me never to do it again, so here we go...
Science Tangents: The Expanse s3e01
I pitched this post to my SYFY Wire editor and he totally ghosted me. Oh well.
Throwing Stones at Marvel’s Infinity War
Spoilers for a 27-year-old comic ahead...and, ya know...a brand new movie
The Largest Planet Found Around the Smallest(-type) Star
The discovery of as large a planet as NGTS-1b around an M-dwarf throws a proverbial wrench into astronomers' assumptions about planetary formation.
Charts! Women and the Nobel Prize
67.5% of the years at least one Nobel Prize was awarded have NO female laureates. That jumps to 85.8% if you only look at STEM.
Fat Mutant Plants
Whether or not people are going to take this research and try to breed super-sugary/fatty lettuce in some weird attempt to make people buy more salad is a question for another day.
Does the Magic School Bus really Ride Again?
Without asking my 7-year-old niece for confirmation, I give it a thumbs up for the target audience.
